Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. Coleridge.

Submitting to one wrong often brings on another. Pr.

Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis—You are known as a nice and experienced judge of things old. Hor.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise, / 25 By simply meek. Milton.

Succedaneum—A substitute.

Success (by laws of competition) signifies always so much victory over your neighbour as to obtain the direction of his work and take the profits of it. This is the real source of all great riches. Ruskin.

Success consecrates the foulest crimes. Sen.

Success? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not succeeded. Carlyle.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends 30 on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Montesquieu.